Mode control in photonic crystal vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and coherent arrays

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 909-917

  Siriani, Dominic F ^a   Peun Tan, Meng ^a   Kasten, Ansas M ^a   Lehman Harren, Ann C ^b   Leisher, Paul O ^c   Sulkin, Joshua D ^a   Raftery Jr , James J ^d   Danner, Aaron J ^e   Giannopoulos, Antonios V ^a   Choquette, Kent D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c NLIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers; Laser modes; Semiconductor laser arrays; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

2D-ARRAYS; BEAM-STEERING; CIRCULAR HOLES; COHERENT ARRAY; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR (DBR) LASERS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR MIRRORS; ETCHED PATTERNS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-POWER; IN-PHASE; LASING MODES; MODE CONTROL; OUT OF PHASE; PHOTONIC LATTICE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ARRAYS; SUPERMODES; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRANSVERSE MODE; VCSEL ARRAYS; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

BRAGG CELLS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; LASER MODES; LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS; REFLECTION; SUPERALLOYS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 67650925207     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2012121     Document Type: Article

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